The past week my english class took a different approach at all of the work that we needed to get done. What we did was we took the 4 days of the week (no class on tuesday) and made them a designated day for a certain assignment or task. For example one day might be blogging day where we take that class and only blog. I really like this new way to use our class time, I like it because I always know what we will do in class for each day, so I can prepare for each day. Another thing that we did last week was we did another odyssey analyses but with a twist. The twist was that we all worked in either a group of either 3 or 4 people. One reason we did this was because Fitz (our teacher) wanted to see how each and every one of us worked in a group and the second reason we did this was because Fitz also wanted to show us Quip. Quip is a website that is mostly used for group projects like the one we did, were there are many people working on one paper together. Personally I don't really like Quip, I feel like it is just a watered down version of all the stuff one can do on google drive. For example on Quip it is very hard to format your paper, but on google drive it is just like Microsoft Word. Overall I really enjoyed this group project, I really liked taking my classmates ideas and my own ideas and making one big analysis. If we had the chance to do this project again I would definitely do it, but I would suggest using Google Drive instead of Quip. I really like the new way we are doing our work and organizing our class time, I hope Fitz or my classmates have more ideas about making our class even better.

Comments

Fitz

01/24/2014 5:50am

Thanks for the thoughtful reflection. There are things that Google does better than Quip and vice versa. I appreciate the work you did!